NEW YORK | The Big U Flood Barrier and Park

[C.]

Bjarke Ingels’ Copenhagen and New York-based architecture firm BIG is one of six winners announced this week. The proposal is called the Big U, and it won $335 million to buttress Manhattan in preparation of the next superstorm. The other winners will focus on the Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island, and New Jersey.

The Big U will stretch eight miles along Manhattan’s coastline, looping south from West 57th Street and then back up to East 42nd Street—a perimeter that hugs the area of Manhattan hit by the blackout. Much of the protection offered by the Big U will be from elevation. But unlike standard dikes, which can actually trap water, the plan calls for a more organic, sloped barrier that’s built into the landscape.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/a-335m-...e-catastrophe/

I didn't see a thread on this. $335 million seems low...

[eleven=11]

price seems low for NY/NJ
the port authority spends that in 3-4 days

what if super storm sandy hit downtown Miami ?

[scalziand]

^That would be a regular hurricane for Miami.

[drumz0rz]

What are the details of the plans for battery park city? I love walking that esplanade. I don't know how you could give it a 10' retaining wall without either completely redoing the whole thing, or putting an ugly intrusive wall up.

There's no way in hell this will cost only 335 million.

[BStyles]

Placing a park on top of any expensive piece of construction serves as a very nice writeoff, in terms of land value. Seeing as the city sits well above water level adding another 10 feet of protection will not change the landscape much. At least not as much as s superblock, or a retaining wall.

[antinimby]

Do I see a light rail train in the third rendering?

[Yo Na]

Can someone please explain why the city planners are looking towards massive landfills and ecological engineering as the solution when there are more simple proposals out there and seemingly just as effective as the more costly and complicated as those mentioned above?

Removable Modular Floodwalls are being used in cities around the world as simple cost effective storm surge solutions. As a NYC resident Im tired of taxpayer dollars being wasted on projects that can be achieved in a more efficient manner or direction.

Check out example of one such company [Just an example of the kind of product out there]

Video Link: http://vimeo.com/63837902

Website: http://ekofloodusa.com/index.php

[BStyles]

Because NYC floods do not happen often enough to purchase all of this equipment for a temporary use. The last hurrican to hit NY was over a hundred years ago, so they'll want something that will protect NY in the long run.

[sparkling]

City Selects Team To Design Lower Manhattan Section Of Flood Protection System



REID WILSON
FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and the realization of rising sea levels, YIMBY, in 2013 and 2014, wrote on “Seaport City,” which was the Bloomberg administration’s ambitious proposal to mitigate flood waters in Lower Manhattan. But the city’s Economic Development Corporation is moving forward with another, less expensive plan, once dubbed the Big U and later the Dryline. The latest news concerns transforming the current shoreline from Harrison Street, in TriBeCa, to Montgomery Street, on the Lower East Side. That section would measure roughly 3.5 miles, and last week the city selected AECOM and Dewberry to engineer and design it, Crain’s reports. The entire Big U is expected to cost north of $1 billion, and $176 million and $115 million of federal and city money, respectively, has already been secured for parts of the project. Another section between Montgomery Street and East 23rd Street, in Kips Bay, which is actually the project’s first phase, is being designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and was granted $335 million in federal money in 2014. BIG is the mastermind behind the entire 10-mile-long proposal.

[The North One]

This is pathetic...

[jbermingham123]

^^ right?? Its like I'm missing something.. Is east midtown somehow less susceptible to flooding than Hells Kitchen? is the east river magically disconnected from the rest of the water?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by jbermingham123

^^ right?? Its like I'm missing something.. Is east midtown somehow less susceptible to flooding than Hells Kitchen?

Yes, it is.



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